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You totally miss the point. The problem is never about China's "endless cheap junk". It is about the rising economic / technology / military power of this autho
by educationdata 7y ago
You totally miss the point. The problem is never about China's "endless cheap junk". It is about the rising economic / technology / military power of this authoritarian state, which is a threat to the whole world.
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- ajross 7y ago> thread to the whole world That's video game logic. My alternative point was that an authoritarian yet peaceful government is less a threat to humanity than Mao's genocide-scale famine. The chinese are oppressed, the PRC is an unfair dealer on the world stage, yet this is still a preferable situation to watching literally a billion people starve. The PRC government can be simultaneously the larges geopolitical "threat" to the world community and the architected of the single greatest improvement in the human condition of the last century. The world is complicated, and not easily reduced to buckets of good guys and bad guys.
- balt_s 7y ago> a threat to the whole world This is rich. In modern times, how often has China intervened in the affairs of a foreign state? I am writing this from America btw.
- ineedasername 7y agoin modern times how often has China intervened in the affairs of a foreign state? Often. North Korea on a regular basis, Vietnam, their relations with Taiwan are a mess that needs books to cover, and their relationship with Russia over Russia's eastern border is, at best, unpleasant. I'm sure a little google-fu would reveal more. They're a world power. Interfering with other countries is part of that package.